Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous